News, Views & Music w/ NJ Weedman

NJ Weedman joins the broadcast to share his views on the disappointing result of his jury trial which concluded this week. Mr. Forchion was convicted on marijuana possession charges. According to New Jersey Attorney Randolph Wolf, Possession of more than 50 grams of marijuana is a 4th degree crime (felony) and carries a jail term of up to 18 months, a fine of up to $25,000.00, a $750.00 DEDR Penalty, and a Drivers License Suspension of between 6 months and 2 years. The jury deadlocked 7-5 on the distribution charge. He is out on bail while the prosecution plans its retrial. Mr. Forchion contends that his jurors are cowards and he is not happy. Join Scotty Reid & NJ Weedman about an hour of great music and a discussion on Jury Nullification & Occupy The Jury Box.

Free Freedom activist Sundiata Acoli with Fayemi Shakur

 

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Fayemi Shakur is a freelance writer, creative consultant and the managing editor of HYCIDE Magazine. She has been working on behalf of the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign for many years. Walidah Imarisha is a poet, writer, educator and organizer. She has been involved in the movement for political prisoners since her first protest at 15. She currently teaches at Portland State University and Oregon State University.

Political Prisoner: Sundiata Acoli, one of the longest held U.S. political prisoner of war, is a mathematician, and computer analyst. He was born January 14, 1937, in Decatur, Texas, and raised in Vernon, Texas. He graduated from Prairie View A & M College of Texas in 1956 with a B.S. in mathematics and for the next 13 years worked for various computer-oriented firms, mostly in the New York area. During the summer of 1964, he performed voter registration work in the notoriously racist State of Mississippi.  In 1968, he joined the Harlem Black Panther Party where he took up community work around political issues of schools, housing, jobs, childcare, drugs, and police brutality. In 1969, he and 13 others were arrested in the Panther 21 conspiracy case but two years later he and the others would be acquitted, by a jury deliberating less than two hours. However Sundiata Acoli could never get back the two years he spent in jail where he was held without for a crime he did not commit. Sundiata is 75 years of age and has been in prison 39 years resulting from a driving while black stop of his car by state troopers on the NJ Turnpike in 1973. The incident led to gunfire that resulted in the death of his passenger, Zayd Shakur, and NJ state trooper, Werner Foerster. Sundiata was wounded at the scene, captured in the woods 40 hours later and subsequently sentenced to life in a NJ State prison. He is now the longest held prisoner in New Jersey's history of similar convictions having long ago satisfied all requirements for parole. He is a political prisoner. 

More info on Bro. Sundiata, including his writings, artwork and ways to provide support are at http://sundiataacoli.org.

Ending the Drug War w/ Michael Gilbert (LEAP) II

Former Corrections Official Mike Gilbert visits the program again. He is currently an associate professor of criminal justice, teaching a wide range of courses at the University of Texas - one of which involves the study of drugs, drug laws, and the association between drugs and crime. He is also actively involved with two justice-related advisory boards in the San Antonio area. I will ask Prof. Gilbert his thoughts on the use of jury nullification to prevent non-violent drug convictions. Will update you on the case of Ed Forchion aka NJ WeedMan which went to jury deliberation today. Will also discuss GOP Newsletter calling for Revolution if Obama wins Re-election, a Youtube Survivalist video features a paper gun target called "Obama Zombie". Proff. Gilbert comes to us via LEAP. Their prime purpose as an organization is to make presentations and foster discussion about responsible alternatives to the War on Drugs. For a real understanding of what LEAP is all about, view the 13 minute “Cops Say Legalize Drugs” video at http://www.leap.cc/watch-a-video/

Black Talk Radio News, Views & Music

Was NFL's Bounty-gate a betting crime? Should coaches and owners face federal criminal charges for organizing what resembles a criminal hit squad and illegal betting ring? Why does a large segment of the US population crave blood sports?

UNC new cheating investigation rumored to involve "Football and Basketball players" and a African-American Studies Program. Will share some of the racist coverage and covert insinuation about all ethnic studies.

 Bread for the World is urging people to contact their reps in The House of Representatives to prevent cuts to SNAP when tens of millions of citizens still need assistance in a still tough job market. Their blog says, "Congress has been proposing more cuts to programs vital to hungry and poor people. The latest is a vote that the House of Representatives will take soon on additional cuts to SNAP and Child Tax Credits. Call your member of the U.S. House of Representatives today using 1-800-326-4941 and tell them to VOTE NO on the reconciliation bill. Call now or at least, no later than Thursday, May 10." Blasting some of the favorite tracks from hip-hop and r&b

Black Talk Radio News, Views & Music

African American birthing rituals? Are they so different from how life is celebrated in Africa? Do you enjoy constitutional rights on your job or are you politically oppressed through corporate fascism? VCU Basket Ball Coach catches heat for co-hosting Obama fund raiser. The media takeover. Do you understand how a few corporations with a few hundred executives control the media programming of at least a billion people globally.


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